Yongnan languages
| Yongnan | |
|---|---|
| Yongnan Zhuang | |
| Region | China |
Native speakers | (1.8 million cited 2000) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zyn |
| Glottolog | yong1275 |
Yongnan, or Yongnan Zhuang, is a dialect-bund sharing common features but not common innovations of Zhuang languages of southern China.
In the classification of Pittiyaporn (2009), Yongnan is not a single language, or even a natural group, but parts of two main branches of the Tai language family (clades C, I, and M):
- (clade C) Yongnan Zhuang of Chongzuo (崇左), Yongnan Zhuang of Shangsi (上思), Caolan of Vietnam*
- (clade D)
- (clade I) Yongnan Zhuang of Qinzhou (钦州)
- (clade J)
- (clade M) Wuming (Shuangqiao) dialect (武鸣)*, Yongnan Zhuang proper (邕南), Yongnan Zhuang of Long'an (隆安), Yongnan Zhuang of Fusui (扶绥)
- (clade N)* Northern Tai: Saek, Bouyei, and other Northern Zhuang
- * Not considered Yongnan anywhere, nor considered Yongnan by Pittiyaporn but placed here to make the clade D monophyletic.
See Tai languages for details.